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Diana Laufenberg tells the audiences about her experience
in teaching in some schools. Right about
the time that the Internet gets going as an educational tool, she took
off from Wisconsin and move to Kansas. She teaches a subject about American
Government. In the first year, kids
in the 12th grade not exactly all that enthusiastic about
the American government system. The second year, she changes her tactic. She puts
in front of them an authentic experience that
allowed them to learn for themselves. She
didn't tell them what to do or how to do it. she posed a problem in front
of them, which was to put on an election forum for their
own community.
From Kansas, she moved on to Arizona. She taught
in Flagstaff about geography. She asked the students to identify someone in
their own life and produce a short movie about it, and nobody really knew how
to make these short movies on the computer. Next, teaching Science Leadership
Academy in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. The students have to bring in laptops with them everyday and take them home to access the information to produce
these info-graphics as a result of a unit that they
decided to do at the end of the year responding to the oil spill. They
were a little uncomfortable with it, because they
had never done this before, and they didn't know exactly how to do it. But
she gave them the room to just do the thing, go create,
go figure it out to see what they
can do. And the student that persistently turns
out the best visual product did not disappoint. This
was done in like two or three days. And this is the work of the student that
consistently did it.
The main point is
that, if we continue to look at education as
if it's about coming to school to get the information and
not about experiential learning, empowering student voice and embracing failure, we're
missing the mark. And everything that everybody is talking about
today isn't possible if we keep having an educational
system that does not value these qualities, because
we won't get there with a standardized test, and
we won't get there with a culture of one right answer. We
know how to do this better, and it's time to do better.
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